portable

## Romer Arm Interface

The Romer interface is used with a Romer arm machine. PC-DMIS v3.7 and above support USB arms.

Copy this file from Wilcox's ftp site: ftp://ftp.wilcoxassoc.com/Hardware/Portable/Romer/GDS/Romosoft V1Sr8.zip

Unzip the files inside and run the setup file.

Set the environment parameters so that PC-DMIS can access Romer’s DLLs:

- Go to Control panel.

- Select System, click on the Advanced tab, and then click on the Environment variables button.

- In the System variables list box, edit the Path variable. Add a semicolon followed by the WinRDS installation directory. Normally this means you need to add ";C:\Program Files\cimcore\winrds" (without the quotation marks) to the end of the Path string.

Before you start PC-DMIS, rename the romer.dll to interfac.dll.

The Machine Option dialog box has five tabs for the Romer interface:

Debug tab

See the "Generating a Debug File" topic.

Tools tab

This tab provides a Diagnostics button. This button launches Romer software to configure and test your Romer arm. See the WinRDS User Guide, located in the WinRDS install directory, for more information. The WinRDS User Guide is a PDF file that installs when you install WinRDS.

The Machine Interface Installation Manual (MIIM) provides additional information for this interface.

You can access the MIIM help file from this link: .

Romer Pulled Hit Feature

The Romer interface supports pulled hits. See "Pulled Hits Method" in the "Probe Compensation" documentation.